My siblings played baseball with a
bunch of other homeschoolers today. I sat in the sun and talked
to 3 of my friends. It was really fun, except I kept going numb
from sitting on a hill that consisted of many bumps for 3 hours.
Oh yeah, and the fact that I didn't face the sun head on. I
battled it left handed…or sided. So now the left half of my
face is burnt and my right side is white. It's pretty funny
looking. At least I'm not all white now.

In other news someone in my family hit a snake with the lawnmower
today. It took the hit near it's head but it's still alive.
Bobo came to me crying and asked me to pray for it. So I
did…and he hasn't stopped telling me how thankful he is that I did
so. I hope the thing lives because snakes are ultra-cool.
The next hour Dad and I spent on the internet looking up the different
snakes in our area so that we could identify it. I learned some
pretty cool tidbits that I'll share since I have nothing else to say.

The venomous snakes in Tennessee are ALL in the Pit Viper
family. So we will be able to classify it as hazardous material
if a) it's head is offset from it's body and triangular shaped, b) it's
eyes/pupils look like a cat's (vertical eliptical shape), and c) it has
some pit something or other near it's mouth…I didn't get that part.

If
you get bit by a snake you should remain as calm as possible.
Freaking out will speed up your circulation and therefore spread the
vemon faster.

You should not
cut the wound, suck the venom out with your mouth, apply ice, have
alchohol, or take pain killers. Freezing the wound has resulted
in people getting the affected limb amputated.

You should remain calm, take down the time, keep the affected limb lower than your heart and race to the hospital.

Out
of the some 50,000 deaths in America each year, only 12-15 of those
resulted from a venomous snakebite. Most of the deaths caused by
snakes are in AZ, FL, AL, and TX.

That's all I can remember right now, but I feel like a reptilian genius spewing those facts out like that. 😉

ALSO the new HOMESCHOOLING THE HIGHSCHOOLER E-BOOK
is out. I've got a chapter in there somewhere. This time I
had more than 3 hours to write it, too (that's literally how long it
took me to write my chapter for Secrets to Successful
Homeschooling. AUNTIE called and said “You're writing a chapter in our e-book you don't know about. Send it in tonight and I'll pay you $50”)!

Oh, and I changed the song on my blog. It's another one that I
created. Every time mom hears it she starts dancing like
crazy. Quite entertaining.

That is sooo cute!!! It sounds like you have some great little siblings! I was just thinking HEY you changed your song!! I like it though. I think the otherone is still the COOLEST!!! You will have to play all of them though, so we can vote or something! That would be Awesome!!

Oh yeah, I was gonna ask, Do you have a job or anything like that? Jsut curious?

I hope I am never put in the position of deciding if I will or will not pray for a snake. It would be a tough call.

Edit: I figured out how to do it, should the need ever arise. Just like in Fiddler on the Roof, the line where the townsfolk ask the rabbi how to pray for the tsar, and he says, "God bless and keep the Tsar……. far away from us." My snake-based prayers would have to be along those lines.